 Protection coordination study of the Photovoltaic (PV) power plant

 The purpose of this study is to provide protection settings for overcurrent (OC)
and earth fault (EF) relays
 The total AC output power of the plant is 15 MW.
 It has been designed as a utility scale system with six centralized inverters.
 The inverters convert the DC voltage to AC voltage and are connected to a total
of six transformer stations (1 inverters per transformer station).
 Each of the six transformer stations contains a high voltage (HV) step-up
transformer converting the 550 V inverter voltage to 22 kV level of the
transmission network.
 The transformer stations are connected in two parallel lines (three transformers
per line) to the grid integration station where the point of connection (POC) is
located.
 Since the two transformer branches are identical, this study focuses on one of the
branches. The other branch will run under identical protection device settings.
Grid data
Max.3 Phase Fault Level 15000 A
Results for Overcurrent Protection -time-overcurrent plots.
Protection device 1 (REL POC)
Device type: WIC 500
Protected Equipment: MV cable POC to PS F, MV cable PS F to PS E and MV cable PS
E to PS D, type NA2XS(FL)2Y 1x240.